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Getting social Two UConn graduates create

View improvement The Daily Orange Editorial Board sees

Away we go Students offer tips to keep

On the line Syracuse’s clutch late free-

a new social planning website called Shizzlr. Page 7

a delayed addition to Crouse-Hinds Hall as a future improvement to SU’s first impression. Page 5

in mind before following an SU sports team on the road. Page 9

throw shooting has contributed to its four-game winning streak. Page 16

Admissions rate sparks discussion

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Cudi tickets sell quickly; overall reaction positive By Amrita Mainthia Asst. Feature Editor

Doug Wexler sat patiently in front of his computer at 10:55 a.m. Tuesday, staring at Ticketmaster. He refreshed the Web page every 30 seconds, waiting for it to go live. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Wexler, a junior political science major, was one of many students who bought online presale tickets for this year’s Block Party, headlined by Kid Cudi. He had floor seats for last year’s show and knew he wanted those again. “Block Party is the best concert of the year,” Wexler said. “When you’re sitting so close, it’s like you’re actually in the performance.” Cudi, Nas and Damian Marley, and an unannounced opening act will perform in the Carrier Dome for Block Party on April 29 at 7 p.m. Tickets, on sale through the Syracuse University Athletics website, cost $15 for students with a valid SU or State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry ID. Since announcing two of the Block Party acts, University Union President Andrew Beyda received positive reactions to the selections, which is reflected by the sales. More tickets were sold during the first hour of selling tickets than during the entire first week of sales for last year’s Block Party, which featured see block party page 6

By Dara McBride News Editor

shijing wang | staff photographer eric schlosser signs copies of his book, “Fast Food Nation,” Tuesday in Hendricks Chapel. The investigative journalist was the first speaker of the spring semester in the University Lectures series.

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Journalist criticizes fast-food industry By Maya Kosoff Contributing Writer

From Eric Schlosser’s point of view, the success of the industrial food system is dependent on people’s ignorance of how it truly operates. Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of “Fast Food Nation,” spoke Tuesday to a nearly full house in Hendricks Chapel as the first speaker for the 2011 spring semester University Lectures series. Schlosser spent most

of his presentation discussing the truth behind America’s “fast-food mentality” and the environmental and social impacts the fast-food industry has made on America in the past 60 years. “It’s no exaggeration to say that the food we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000,” Schlosser said. Schlosser originally published “Fast Food Nation” in three parts in Rolling Stone Magazine in 1998, said Eileen Schell, director and

chair of the writing program at SU. The book, published in 2001, was on The New York Times’ bestseller list for two years and has been translated into 20 languages. As an investigative journalist, Schlosser has investigated topics including the New York Police Department Bomb Squad, California migrant farm workers and marijuana growers. “Command and Control,” Schlosser’s next piece, deals with nuclear proliferasee schlosser page 4

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Final dean candidate to visit SU beginning Wednesday By Kathleen Ronayne Managing Editor

Syracuse University officials have identified the deputy secretary of state for the United States as the fourth and final candidate in the search for the new dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Jim Steinberg will visit the campus on Wednesday and Thursday for

the on-campus phase of the interview process, said William Banks, chair of the search committee, in an e-mail. Steinberg is the fourth and final dean candidate announced. Steinberg began serving as the deputy secretary of state in January 2009. From January 2006 to 2009, he was the dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at

the University of Texas at Austin. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the vice president and director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institute. Steinberg could not be reached for comment. During his two-day visit to the SU campus, Steinberg will meet with faculty, staff and students for a series of

meetings, luncheons and interviews. In February, the three other dean candidates visited the campus for two-day stints. The other three candidates are Anil Deolalikar, professor of economics and associate dean of social sciences at the University of California Riverside; Gail Dubrow, professor

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At last month’s University Senate meeting, a discussion began on the rising admissions rate over the past two years, prompting a wider university conversation. Between fall 2008 and fall 2010, the admissions rate jumped from 52.5 percent to 59.7 percent, according to Syracuse University statistics provided by Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs. University officials attribute this increase to a rise in SU’s popularity and efforts to attract more students from a wider geographic range, specifically outside of the Northeast. The admissions rate has fluctuated in the past decade. Comparing 2002’s 80.3 percent to today’s 60 percent shows a drop. But between that time, the percentages fell into the low 50s before rising again to 60.1 percent in fall 2009. Both the number of applications and the number of students admitted have also increased in the past decade. In 2001, 12,917 applied to SU, and 9,221 were admitted. In 2010, 22,921 applied, and 13,676 were admitted. The average high school GPA and SAT scores for admitted students have remained about the same in the past few years, fluctuating at about 3.60 and between 1160 and 1170, respectively. Admissions are expanding as the university looks to recruit more students from various geographic, ethnic, racial and socioeconomic areas, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management. Recently, the university has brought in more students from the American south and southwest, and the number of international students has also risen, Saleh said. Saleh said he would like to see the university continue to reflect the socioeconomic, racial and ethnic diversity of the country. From 2001 to 2010, the percentage of admitted students from the Northeast dropped by nearly 6 percent, from 77.5 see admissions page 6


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